Nessie might be a hoax, a branch, bow waves, otters, deer or shoals of fish.
In The Loch Ness Monster: The Evidence (Birlinn, Edinburgh, £6.99, ISBN 1
874744 61 0) Stueart Campbell slots several dozen sightings, photos, films and
sonar readings into each category. He may be completely right, but like those of
many sceptics, his conclusions suffer from broad-brush generalisations.
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